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| Left: David Fugere's model (photo used with permission) | Right: E. L. Moore's (E. L. Moore Archives) |
Paul is doing a great job keeping his eyes open for new versions of E. L Moore projects. Recently he alerted me to this excellent HO model by David Fugere of a water tank E. L. Moore built and described in the article, An old-time water tank, that appeared in the Spring 1959 issue of Model Trains. David kindly allowed me to post a picture of his water tank and notes it's built from "Balsa, card, plastic and a few commercial parts."
In the article E. L. Moore mentions his model was based on a photograph - it's not freelanced - but from the way he talks about the photo I don't think he shot it:
"My photo of the prototype doesn't tell me where the old veteran saw service, but it was obviously still in use when photographed, sometime in the early 1940's."
I was hoping the article contained some tall tale about how he stumbled across the prototype on one of his adventures, but no such luck.
It looks like Mr. Moore used the water tank as a background structure in the photos of his Grizzly Flats depot that appeared a few years later in the March 1962 issue of Model Trains. In the photo below from his archives it seems for some mysterious reason he renamed the depot Blue Lake and shot another series of photos. The thing that remains the same though is the water tank appears in the background of both.
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| Blue Lake depot, aka Grizzly Flats depot, photo circa early 1960s (E. L. Moore Archive) |
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